Tomorrow is our “respond by” date and we’ve gotten-get THIS shit-12 out of almost 60 RSVP’s back. We’re going to have to track down almost 50. Nine are from FI’s side, the rest are my family and friends.

We mailed our invitations Monday and got our first RSVP today….whoo hoo! I’m taking this as a good sign that I won’t have to chase many people down, fingers crossed. I find it so rude to not even bother to send a reply, or call at least!

Don’t get your hopes up, maybe you’ll be lucky but in my experience there are always the responsible people in the group who do it right away. Of those who haven’t sent them there are probably several who have no idea it’s important to do at all, several who can’t make up their mind (and may not until right before the wedding), and several who think you assume they are coming and don’t need to confirm formally.

There are several people who STILL haven’t RSVP-ed for mine, and it was 3 weeks ago, lol.

We had to chase down about 30% of ours, but it was mostly family and people we knew would be there, but we made them RSVP anyway bc it’s online and easier to track if they just take 5 minutes to do it. 🙂

I have decided that for the poeple that don’t send them back, I will send a nicely worded note saying “Perhaps you forgot to mail your RSVP-we’ll need to give the venue a head count, so if we don’t hear from you by___________, we’ll assume that you can’t make it”. I may follow it up with 1 phone call, but I’m not chasing these people around!!!!

We had to chase down 10-15 out of about 50 invitations that were sent. Most were from family, a lot of whom said (“You knew we were coming!” – Am I also supposed to magically know what you will be eating?)